#language!!!!

[crapflaps]

THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU

[glacialispictorem]

When you find out that the last baguette in the grocery store is already sold...

Oopsie...

[helianthus21]

the linguist in me is tearing up at this

[cactustreesmotel-moved]

my prof just read out urdu love poems to the class... the world is healed and rain is beautiful

[talahui]

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one of my projects today is to proofread a 25 page doc from one of our partners in the MENA region, and because I love language and often enjoy menial tasks, this is nice for me because often people writing in a non-native language make word choices that make me go huh. I would never have picked that word. does it actually work? and usually the answer is yes because the vocabulary you pick up is based on geography and utility.

not totally related, but it makes me think of how a pal used to always have me edit her Facebook posts because she liked to post in English for her family living abroad because of the usual linguistic colonialism things, and she'd always use the phrase Done and Dusted and I was like??? toko, what does this mean? and it was just a normal kiwi phrase I'd never encountered. same with "sweet as" and the many iterations. everyone always jokes about unique Australian language usage but I am looking at y'all a little farther south.

my super regional thing (may even be unique to Oregon but maybe also the pnw in general) is spendy as in, "I'd love one of those 12 foot skeletons, but they're super spendy and I am cheap as shit." probably my most regional giveaway since I think living lots of places with lots of different types of English has messed up my natural accent. I'd adapt to be the most understandable when I taught, and some stuff has stuck.

I love language! in another life where I didn't care about being employed, that's what I'd have studied

[ask-the-eight-souls-blog]

Conrad's opinion #7

Chocolate: Some tastes good, some looks good. Some taste shit and others look shit.

[brojakuu]

🆒